Interesting essay about the HISTORY OF MULTIHULLS (author: Michael Kingdom-Hocking)

...just like to share two short, interesting essays written by the author Michael Kingdom-Hocking about the HISTORY OF MULTIHULLS

Such historical reviews give me a good feeling about where we are today. It's a more easy understanding about the boat constructions we see nowadays floating around as the modern contructions mostly are a following up (not in the sense of a revolution but as an evolution) on the basis our sailing ancestors created as pioneers.

As we saw in Sailing Boats Through the Ages, the big problem with sailing boats is that they operate on the boundary between air and water, using the water to support the weight and the wind (movement of the air relative to the water) to provide the motive power... [ 974 more words. ]

Crab's invasion everywhere, hm ?! Seems to become a very crabby Saturday :-)

As I am very newly in both forums, I didnt know about Crabman's postings there, yet. But I did some postings in this tread, already. I think, it was started by Gary Baigent whom I know. Very profoundly knowledge about multihulls, this guy... and a keen boatbuilder